Age Quote by Matthew Arnold

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

— Sophie Swetchine

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with…

— Sue Thoele

“It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this…

— Ogwo David Emenike

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an…

— Ridgely Torrence

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths,…

— Juvenal

The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to…

— Alain de Botton

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

— Willis Polk

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

— Francis of Assisi